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mum TO LIME v M !MedfordJTribune United Press Tan tftiH Wire 46th Year 10 Pages (Bute. i Action Chicago (U.R) A strike by engineers, firemen and conduct ors virtually paralyzed the New York Central railroad and three subsidiaries Monday, but the Army promised prompt action to. get the trains rolling again, The New York Centra was operating only as far west as Buffalo. N.Y. Traffic on the Michigan Central, Ohio Central and Big Four was halted. Injunction Expected The Army, in technical charge of the railroads since 1950, was expected to seek anti- strike injunctions in federal court before nightfall. The strike, which began Sun day, stemmed from a three-year disnute over wages, hours ana work rules. In addition to the New York Central and its subsidiaries, the walkout affected other roads using New York Central facili ties. The New York Central said it already had laid off about 20, 000 workers because of the sur prise walkout, and that the total would mount to 50,000 "if the strike continues two or three days." The road employs a total of about 110,000. Troop Train To Move A railroad spokesman said that "hardly a wheel is turning" in the strikebound area west of Buffalo. A single troop train was scheduled for movement in the Chicago area Monday afternoon, and presumably would go through oh time. Taff, Ike Backers Predict Victory ' Concord, N. H. (U.R) Sup porters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower and Sen. Robert A. Taft made conflicting forecasts of vic tory Monday as New Hampshire voters preparec" to mark ballots in Tuesday's curtain-raising pres idential primary. The stinging "grass roots" campaign, which left little room for compromise among opposing Republican factions, is expected to attract more than one-third of the state's 300,000 eligible voters. While the Eisenhower-Taft contest holds the national spot light, President Truman's popu larity among rank and file Democrats gets its first major test since the 1948 elections. Sen. Estes Kefauver, the president's opponent in the Granite state primary, all but concedes victory. Kefauver said with another week of "cracker barrel" campaigning, he could beat Mr. Truman, but, with time having run out, he will be satis fied "with a good phowing." Wind, Rain, Snow Dominate Weather Br UNITED PRESS Gusty March winds, rain and mountain snow dominated the weather picture in the Pacific Northwest Monday. Small craft warnings for southwest to west winds up to 35 miles an hour were renewed for 24 hours at 10 a.m. Monday from Westport to Cape Blanco, Ore., and in Washington's south ern inland waters. Showers and snow flurries were on the menu for both Ore gon and Washington through Tuesday with the snow confined to eastern areas and the moun tains. Seattle (U.R) Work on a $2, 500,000 unit of the University of Washington's teaching and re search hospital is expected to be gin early this summer. Youngster Probably Feels Everything Has Happened Portland (U.R) Two-and-one- half-year-old Mark Galbraith could smile Monday, but it's been a long, hard struggle. The trouble started when the Pasco, Wash., tot was 17-months-old. He pulled pot of boiling coffee upon himself, and scalded his chest down to his waist. He carries scars from that episode. Fell From Auto His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Galbraith, were driving from Pendleton to. their home in Pasco last December when Mark fell out of the car. Mark suffered a broken shoul der, a pair of scraped and bruis ed legs. But he recovered quick ly from this mishap. MEDFORD, OREGON, The walkout Sunday left thou sands of travelers stranded. The La Salle street station in Chica go, used by the New York Cen tral, was virtually deserted. But at the Union station, the Pennsylvania Railroad reported an upsurge in passenger reserva tions to New York. The Pennsyl vania, unaffected by the walk out, said that" its Manhattan, leaving Chicago at noon for New York, was "sold out." Airlines, too, reported a mark ed increase in business. Freight Embargo Impoiad. The New York Central im posed a freight embargo over the strike-bound section,"' and hundreds of freight cars were tied up in terminals, and yards. At Indianpolis, Ihd., 30 car loads of perishable food were tied up. Industry already had begun tp feel the effects. At . Cleveland, O., Midland Steel Products com 2 Medford Women Hurt in Bus Crash Eugene (U.R) Twenty-three persons were injured, seven ser iously, when two Trailways busses collided head-on in a nar row underpass three miles south of here early Monday. State police said a 'southbound bus driven by Kenneth B. Sat ron, Salem, Ore., hit a concrete abutment at the approach to the underpass on Highway 99 and the impact hurled the vehicle di rectly into the path of a north bound bus. The busses were heavily dam aged but neither Satron nor Roy Vermillion, Milwaukee, Ore., driver of the northbound bus, was seriously injured. Three ambulances sped ' the injured to hospitals here short ly after the mishap at 3:30 a. m. Listed as seriously injured but not critical were Robert Duff, Grants Pass, broken ankle; Mrs. Ethel Behrman, Grants Pass; Mrs. Florence Vance, route 2, box 296, Medford; the Rev. Paul Water District Vote Scheduled April 15 A special election to deter mine whether or not a new wa ter district northwest of Med ford shall be incorporated, has been set for . April 15 by the county court. Petitions asking the election were filed with the court Fri day and the signatures were checked by the county clerk's office. At the election, officers for the proposed district will also be up for vote. If the vote is favorable, the new district will be able to ne gotiate with the city of Med ford for the purchase of domes tic water supplies, now avail able through the city's new Big Butte Spring pipeline. Lumber Firm, Junior Red Cross Burglarized ' The Junior Red Cross head quarters and the Crater Lake Lumber company offices were burglarized early Sunday, ac cording to a report from city police. : Missing from the Junior Red Cross headquarters were eight pounds of round steak, $2 or $3 in stamps and a pound of butter, the police said. Lumber company employees reported the loss of $14 or $15 worth of three cent stamps, a 50-cent roll of pennies a half dollar and a dollar bill. Early last week, Mark crawl ed underneath his parents' car to chase a ball. His brother, Scotty, was playing in the ve hicle and decided that the proper moment had come to test the starter. Jaw Fractured The car rolled against Mark's head, fracturing his jaw. The Galbraiths rushed Mark to the hospital. A Portland doctor undertook the delicate task of setting and wiring the young ster's jaw. So, Mark can smile again, but bis jaw will have to be wired up for at least 30 days. After that, his lower jaw should be good as new. - i MONDAY, MARCH 10, frtHDS(Q pany ordered a shutdown at noon, idling 2,000 employees. The walkout, aimed primarily at the New York Central, affect ed other lines, too. The Wabash Railroad canceled trains into St Louis, where the St. Louis term inal line was strikebound. C & O Trains Canceltd - The Chesapeake & Ohio can celed trains out of Chicago, where it uses New York Central tracks and between Grand Rap ids, Mich., and Oetroit. . Officials of three striking brotherhoods representing about 5,500 striking engineers, firemen and conductors, said the strike was a "token" affair. They said there was no par ticular reason for choosing the New York Central or for limit ing the strike to the area west of Buffalo. The unions had adopted simi lar tactics, however, in previous walkouts. W. McBeth, Elizabethtown, Pa., and Mrs. Billie McClure, 915 Broad street, Medford. Others injured besides the two drivers included Mrs. Celesta Baker, Eugene; Mrs. Shirley Snider, Klamath, Calif., and her two children, Sylvia and David; Reed McKay, Central Point Miss Emma Taylor, Roseburg; Pat Ford, Sederstrom Hall, Uni versity of Oregon; Mrs. Lichty (no first name or address avail able); Mrs. Sally Cassidy, Ver- onia; Ima Holbrook, Kelso Wash.; Clifford Sowell, Gamma Hall, University of Oregon; Mrs. Dorothy Galloway, Beaverton, and her daughter, name unavail able, and John B. Haybon, Rose burg. . . ' ...... Bevan Showdown Strategy Planned London U.R) Rival factions of the Labor party held separ ate sessions Monday to plot strategy for a showdown Tues day which may lead to the ex pulsion of leftist rebel Aneurin Bevan and his followers. It was expected that 31 to 40 of Bevan s leftist followers in Commons would stick by him even if he is ousted from the Labor party. They might form a new Independent Labor party in the House. While the Bevanites discussed their next move, a special com mittee of the parliamentary labor members of Commons held a special meeting to decide what line to take at a full party caucus Tuesday. The caucus of all 295 Labor members of Commons was call ed to decide what action, if any, to take against Bevan and 56 other leftwingers for bolting the party leadership to vote against Britain's $4,094,160,000 rearma ment program in the House last Wednesday night - CANDIDATE One of the last candidates to file here before the deadline last Friday was John Henry Tizekker, above, who is seeking the Republican nomina tion ' for county assessor in the primary election. Tizekker was a candidate for the same post in 1948. . ! V - ' - ' sv 1 tut- " tWW Fr Mg TwU Uwl Wire 1952 No. 305 Batista Forces Seize Control of Cuba Government Pre-Dawn Coup Brings Surrender . Br FRANCIS L. MCCARTHY Havana, Cuba (U.R) : Gen Fulgencio Batista, Cuba s "presi dent maker," seized control of the army in a pre-dawn coup Monday and the presidential palace surrendered to his troops at 6 a.m. PST. Two members of the presiden tial palace guard were reported killed and seven wounded in an outburst of firing several hours before the surrender. Apparent ly the shooting was done by Ba tista supporters before the main body 'of troops arrived. On Way to Fortress Batista sources said President Carlos Prio Socarras, against whom Batista rebelled, and members of his cabinet were on the way to the grim Cabana fortress across the harbor from the city. The fortress, whose guns dom inated the capital, was reported under command of Gen. Francis co Tabernilla, an old Batista man, and it was indicated that Prio had gone there to negotiate a surrender or, if possible, an agreement short of surrender Batista's troops and national police are in control in central Havana and at Camp Columbia. the army general headquarters outside the city. Batista, who has helped over throw three presidents since the early 193 0's and has made two, is a candidate in the June 1 presidential election against the party of President Prio. Striking at 3 a.m. when he went to Camp Columbia and seized command of the army there, Batista told the United Press, he revolted because, the government had become a col lection of "political ward heel ers. He charged that Prio was getting ready to install his own presidential candidate, former president Carlos Hevia, by means of a coup if Hevia failed to show - strength that : would make his election certain. ; Drama Watched From Roof: This correspondent watched from the roof of the Hotel Se- villa, dominating the nearby presidential palace and its great square in the heart .of downtown Havana, when the drama reach ed ' its climax. Armored cars with truckloads of infantrymen behind them closed in on the palace from all four main streets leading to it. as tne armored cars ap- roached, white sheets appeared from windows and from the roof of the palace, hanging down its walls. As the infantrymen followed the armored cars, more white flags appeared. Not a shot was fired. Prio Followers Searched The soldiers and police who had been guarding the palace, with machine guns set up be hind its grilled metal entrance gates, filed out into the street. Others of the Prio regime fol lowed them to the street. All were lined up and search ed, then herded back into the building. The army took over the inter national airport at Rancho Boyeros, presumably to keep members of the Frio govern ment from fleeing by plane. George Withdraws Snyder Statement Washington (U.R) Sen. Wal ter F. George Monday took back some angry words he spoke about Secretary of the Treasury Snyder, but not his blast against President Truman. The Georgia Democrat said he was "wholly in error" last Fri day when he said Snyder was responsible for the appointments of Denis W. Delaney and James Fmnegan as internal reveue collectors. : Delaney was convicted at Boston of taking a bribe. Finne- vn is on trial now in St. Louis on bribery charges. There was no conciliatory words f or . Mr. Truman in George's unusual speech. His original charges were made in retort to Mr. Truman's request for Senate approval of an inter- nal revenue reorganization plan to put collectors under civil service as a demonstration that senators were, really interested in cleaning up corruption. Richland (U.R) The - Wage Stabilization board has approved 2.5 per cent retroactive cost of living wage hike for General Electric employees at Hanford, company officials said Monday. MILK LINE FCR KOREA'S HUNGRY As they do every day at Kumchang, Korea, in every kind of weather, Korea's hungry line up for their handout of milk and rice. The line is composed of the young, the old, and the sick. Only children under 15 and adults over 60 can draw rations uni-ss they are ilL The powdered milk is received from t e United Nations Civil Assistance Organization and is distributed by the 1st ROK Division's civil assistance section. Struck Mill Again Operating; Pickets Back at Singleton The Southern Oregon Planing mill at Central Point resumed operations this morning after being strike-bound since Febru ary 18. A full crew passed the picket line this morning, ac cording to company spokesmen. Pickets from Local . 3030, Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union, AFL. also were on hand at the Jackson Creek Lumber company, near Jacksonville, in a jurisdictional strike. This plant, too, is operating after re suming work last week. Pickets Reappear At a third mill involved in the strike situation, pickets re appeared this morning at the Singleton Milling company. Cen tral Point, after a circuit judge ruled Saturday that the court here has no jurisdiction, and lifted a temporary injunction against picketing which has been placedagainst the union. The strike at the Southern Oregon Planing mill was the first, and involved a dispute be tween the company and the union over the status of a former foreman. The Singleton mill was in volved later when pickets ap peared there, claiming the mill was using equipment taken from the other mill's property. Over Recognition At the Jackson Creek firm, which has overlapping owner ship and management with the Southern Oregon Planing mill, the union says the strike is purely over recognition of the union, which claims a majority of the workers are union men. The company says it will not recognize any union without a National Labor Relations Board supervised election. It has ask ed the NLRB to conduct such an election. A company spokesman at Southern Oregon Planing mill said today that "quite a few" of those who started work there today were employees of the mill before the strike started. Saboteurs Derail Train, 85 Killed Saigon, French Indo-China (U.R) Communist saboteurs de railed a train 170 miles northeast of here three days ago, killing 85 persons and injuring 23, it was reported Monday. The disaster occurred near the village of Kompong Lat, 30 miles northwest of the Cambodian capital of Pnom Penh. Hitting a section of track torn up by saboteurs, the train ex ploded several mines and plunged over a bridge into a ravine. All 15 coaches of the train toppled into the ravine. Eighty- five bodies were lecovered from the piled-up. wreckage. All the victims were . Cambodian or Viet Nam natives. Spokane Radio Men Settle Labor Dispute bpokane (U.R) Some 35 striking technicians and union engineer-annoucers returned to work Monday at five Spokane radio stations after settling a four-day-old wage dispute, .. Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Tuesday with wide ly scattered showers. Low to nlfht 33. Hlfh Tuesday 55 ' Temp. Hifhest Yesterday 55 Lowest this Moraine 35 Free, to 4M a-nu Today , ti Police Press Search For Slayer of Man Who Fingered Sutton New York (U.R) Police searched Monday for a scarfaced escaped convict as the slayer of the hero in bank robber Willie Sutton's capture but they did not rule out a theory that a self-appointed avenger shot the young pants salesman. v More than 150 plainclothes men and uniformed patrolmen combed the city for Frederick J. (the Angel) Tenuto, convicted killer who climbed over a Phila delphia prison wall with Sutton in 1947. Seen in Brooklyn Tenuto became the quarry in the city's greatest manhunt after he was reported seen in Brook lyn a few hours before Arnold Schuster, 24, was shot four times near his home Saturday night Sabrejets Boost Bag of MIGs; Russ Weapons Said Used Seoul, Korea (U.R) Amer ican Sabrejet pilots shot down seven Communist MIG-15s and damaged three others in wild air battles over North Korea Mon day, inflicting the greatest losses on the Red air force in more than a month. A fleet of 80 Russian-built jets crossed the Yalu river for the first time in four days. They were attempting to drive off 100 Allied fighter-bombers at tacking a vital 15-mile stretch of railway east of Sunchon. It was the, worst day for the Communist air force since Jan uary 25, when American Sabre jets destroyed 10 MIGS, prob ably destroyed 1 and damaged 3. Russian Weapons Used Meanwhile, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's headquarters in Tok yo announced that Russia and her satellites are providing most of the weapons used by the Com munist forces in Korea. Soviet artillery, tanks, ve hicles and smaller weapons are being used by the Communist forces in Korea, an announce ment said. All the weapons are effective," even though some date back to 1902. South Africa Riots Claim Lives off 1 1 Johannesburg, South Africa (U.R) Eleven persons have been killed and nearly 200 injured in two days of rioting which has terrorized the native- township of Newclare in the Johannesburg area, police said Monday. Gangs of thugs roamed the township all day Sunday. Native vigilantes fought them. Sunday night thousands of na tive families barricaded them selves, terrorized, in their dark ened shacks praying that the thugs would pass them by. It was believed the outbreak was a sequel to riots which start ed Christmas day and caused the death of 37 persons and injuries to 600. . . . Ex-Governor Pierce.-. Will Leave Hospital Salem (U.R) Amazingly rug ged Walter M. Pierce, former governor and congressman of Oregon, was to go home, from the hospital Monday. . Pierce, who will be 91 years old in May, was so ill a couple of weeks ago that his family gathered at his hospital bedside here. ........ : .. . The killer, who had lurked in an alley on his death watch, fired a .dH-caiiber bullet into young Schuster's abdomen. Then he shot the youth in the head three times as he tumbled to the side walk. The word that Schuster had been murdered in cold blood spread so fast that his family re ceived the news - when it was flashed on their television screen. Chances Seen Ruined When Sutton was told the youth who had been responsible for his capture had been killed in gangland fashion, the bank robber said "this sinks me." Police interpreted Sutton's statement to mean that Schus ter's assassination would ruin his chances when he faces trial for the $69,000 robbery of a Long island Dank two years ago. "He feels, that this shooting ruins any chances he had of get ting a break," they said. Sutton promised Sunday night he would aid police. Cooperation Promised "I will do everything I can to cooperate with the police to help bring the killer of Arnold Schus ter to justice," Sutton said. Sutton, who previously had expressed no feeling of ill will toward Schuster for fingering mm to police, said he would write a letter On condolence to Schuster's family. However, Thomas J. (Scud) Kling, who was captured two days following Sutton's arrest and linked With Willie in the bank-robbery, refused to com ment on the slaying. Russian Officials Under Restrictions Washington (U.R) The United States slapped strict re strictions Monday on the travel of all Russian officials and fam ilies in this country. The State Department deliv ered the tough order to the So viet embassy. It announced that it was restricting travel of such Russians in retaliation against similar restrictions imposed on Americans in the Soviet Union. The United States action was accompanied by similar moves in France and the Netherlands. Most of the North Atlantic treaty nations were expected to follow suit. Under the American order, Russian officials and their de pendents in this country must give formal notification to the State or Defense Departments before leaving the city in which they are residing. Cuts in Foreign Aid Bill May Bring Repercussions Washington (U.R) High administration officials fear that any sharp cuts in President Tru man's $7,900,000,000 foreign aid program may have serious po litical repercussions in Western Europe. They are ready to warn Con gress, at hearings beginning lat er this week, that a slowdown in U. S. aid might cause the fall of several key European gov ernments which are supporting Atlantic pact rearmament plans. No Immediate Danger U. S. experts see no immediate danger that pro-Communist gov ernments may come,to power in Britain, France, Italy and West ern Germany. But they are alarmed about the growing pow er of non-Communist political leaders who oppose the present . Atlantic pact rearmament pro Rear Adm. Libby Tires of Insults Hurled by Commies Limit Apparently Reached in Talks Panmunjom U.R) An All'ed truce delegate warned the Com munists Monday that he will walk out of Korean armistice meetings if they continue to in sult the United Nations. But Rear Adm. Ruthven E. Libby made it clear that he if not threatening to break off ne gotiations. "There is a limit beyond which we are not going to go," Libby told newsmen after a 57-minute meeting on exchanging prison ers. "I am not going to sit and listen to that tripe. I'll just get up and walk out." Six-Minute Session The limit aoparently already has been reached in the other negotiating tent. Staff officers discussing armistice terms there adjourned after only six min utes four minutes longer than Sunday's session. . UN representatives again said they had nothing new to offer on their stand against Russia's membership on a "neutral" in spection commission or other deadlocked issues. Next Move Up to Reds Libby told North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee Sang Cho in the prison er discussions that "you have even gone so far as to attempt to intimidate us by threats so that we will acquiesce to your de mands." Libby made it clear that the next move is up to the Reds. But he told Lee the Allies do-not intend to "sit and listen" any further to baseless Red charges that the UN delegation is "tell ing lies." The Communists on Sunday had accused the UN command of "inhuman and barbarous" acts against Red prisoners, in cluding forced tattooing and threatening them with "bayoneta and hand grenades" to Join anti-. Communist societies. Statement Studied "We have studied your pre pared statement of yesterdav." Libby said, "and after reading it, we are more than ever unable to understand what you hope to accomplish at this late date by reading into the record such an outrageous agglomeration of misstatements of facts, ground less accusations and thinly-veil ed threats." Libby disputed Communist denials that they hold in Korea more than the 11,500 prisoners whose names they gave the UN and that they never removed any captives to China. New Trial Planned In Bribery Hearing Olympia (U.R) Defense at torneys were prepared Monday to move for a new trial for Samuel Emmanuel, convicted Friday on one count of asking a bribe while serving as land board secretary. If the motion is denied, the attorneys said they would ap peal the conviction to the State Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Attorneys Tracy Gtiffin and Lee Olwell were working out the defense to another bribery count filed against Emmanuel in Pacific county. That trial starts Wednes day in Raymond before Judge John J. Langenback. Thief Disappointed In Bottle Contents Salem (U.R) A prowler who was no candidate for Alcoholics Anonymous when he broke into a Salem home made off with a filled whisker bottle. Police said Monday he may now be a prospect for Alco holics Anonymous. The whis key bottle was filled, all right but not with bourbon. II was filled with cold tea. gram, and want to make big cuts in their own nations con tribution to it. Administration witnesses are expected to tell Congress that the anti-rearmament, pro-"neu-trality" political factions in Eu rope will be greatly strength ened by an evidence of waning U. S. support for the mutual de fense effort. Shave Expected Experts doubt, however, that any warnings sounded by the administration will - dissuade Congress from shaving $1,000, 000,000 to $2,000,000,000 front the foreign aid program. Power ful congressional sentiment for reducing the program has been voiced in advance of bearings which the Senate Foreign Rela tions and House Foreign Affairs committees are scheduled to start Tuesday or Wednesday. X
